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‘You should be in prison’: Ghana MP on gay people and allies | BBC News

In May, Ghana's parliament approved a new bill criminalising homosexuality and the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities. It proposes that identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer be punished by up to three years' imprisonment. One of the bill's co-authors, Emmanuel Bedzrah, spoke to the BBC's religion editor Aleem Maqbool about it.

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